After almost 1 week of sheer frustrations, I have been unable to connect my Iphone 3G to my exchange server at work.
I have tried probably every method discussed here, including restoring my iphone 3G several times. My issue has been elevated all the way up to apple engineering, and still no solution.
It appears that the issue is that I cannot connect because my company is using Exchange server 2003 with SP1.
I can connect any Windows Smartphone or Pocket PC and it will sync in what seems seconds….very fast. I have used windows phones connected to our server for more than 4 years, never an issue.
My company has the attitude of we “We don’t want you to connect, you are lucky to be able to use active sync on windows phones!!” So their change is not probable.
Has anyone found a way to connect Iphone 3G to an Exchange Server 2003, SP1?
I have an SBS2003 server and I realized I needed to update to Exchange 2003 SP2 to make the iPhone sync. I'm actually trying to get it to work on an iPod Touch as I wait for my iPhone. When that didn't work and I saw this post, it made sense. Many times before, after making a change to Exchange, re-running the Internet-mail wizard fixed things. Several minutes after doing this it worked.
Other details: I have a self-signed cert, using SSL, OWA also works.
You have to find out the ActiveSync server name. Mine was outlook.usc.edu, which is different than the server name I use to hook Outlook up to Exchange.
I have the exact same situation as lcavada is there a way to figure out what the activesync server name is?, calling the technical appartment is not an option unfortunate.
I can login on our companys mail server using the normal OWA
https://webmail.xx.xx
I'm posting this once more with further explanation. If you have the original iPhone and you've loaded 2.0 and are trying to configure exchange you have to understand your phone and network are slower (like mine). If you aren't getting an error message at the bottom of the screen then it's just taking too long to update your iPhone with exchange.
I had the same original problem you've had and it repeated itself when I had a bunch of messages to update this weekend. Also, understand you have to keep your mailbox pruned. If you're one of those that keeps 2000 emails in your inbox, you're probably never going to sync. I keep mine around 20-30 emails. Last weekend it got up to 80. So, it took a long time to sync. The solution is to minimize the emails in your inbox (by not using your inbox as a filing system and properly file your old emails in other folders). Then, minimize the preview lines to reduce the data that has to transfer to your iPhone.
When I reduced my Preview lines to 2, my original sync finally worked. When I had to sync about 50-60 emails from last weekend, I had to drop my Preview lines to 1. Then everything caught up. When we can finally find a 3G to upgrade to, this will probably improve things greatly.
So, for everyone were nothing else has worked try the following:
1. Go to settings
2. Click Mail, contacts, calendars
3. On Preview select 2 lines (1 is even better).
I am not sure if this is what ultimately helped my iPhone start to sync, but it is worth a try if you have went through as much as I have to get it to work. I found in one of the threads here a tool to update your .net folders to the latest version. After I did that everything started working. I can not find the thread now but there is a link to a tool to update .net folders. Try a search for that on the web and hopefully you can find it.
The exchange server is where the folders that I updated were located. The utility that is posted in the one of the discussion groups actually does the update for you on the server when you run it.
Guys, I can say with absolutely certainty to check your OMA configuration. This was my problem. I did the procedure listed in the thread and mail is working great now. Or follow this link then test OMA.
http://geekswithblogs.net/Sal/archive/2006/07/11/84719.aspx
the sad thing is that I have successfully used a Treo 700p with activesync on our exchange server for over 2 years (worked flawlessly) I also know that we have several users running windows mobile..
There is no change I'm giving my credentials on that website. Don't even think about it!
.biz address, slow server, no content but this form that asks you for a password, username, email and URL to the server. Everything anyone needs to know to be able to enter your e-mail account and send spam everywhere.
